University of Kentucky College of Design (UK/CoD)
School of Architecture
critic: Martin SUMMERS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Brian RICHTER: In recent years Lexington, Kentucky has become an increasingly unique mid-size urban center with incredible cultural, social and economic potential. Much of this potential may be attributed to Lexington’s youth and leadership, who are responsible for initiating many of the proposed city projects that have the ability to build Lexington as a regional urban model.

PLUS-SUM (Martin SUMMERS): Museums represent our greatest cultural and social aspirations in their mission to collect and disseminate ideas while also striving for symbolic status within global cultural and national/local, shared aspirations. A Museum of Contemporary Art has a particularly elevated status within this shared cultural milieu, because it embodies our aspirations to shape and evolve culture. It collects and defines the edges of our cultural production and at it’s best, reflects the current and future states of our collective evolution.